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| - Judges in Malawi annulled on Monday last year's presidential election over vote rigging and irregularities, a decision with precedents around the world in the past two decades. On October 20, 2019, Bolivians went to the polls with Evo Morales, Latin America's longest-serving leader, seeking a fourth straight term. His only main challenger was centrist and former president Carlos Mesa. The release of official results was stalled, prompting international observers to ask for clarification. On October 25, the election authority released final results, giving victory to Morales and sparking widespread unrest. Just over two weeks later, Morales resigned and deputy senate speaker Jeanine Anez declared herself interim president. She later signed a law annulling the October vote results and prevented Morales -- exiled in Mexico -- from running. The 2017 presidential election in Kenya on August 8 pitted incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta against Raila Odinga, who had run unsuccessfully three times in the past. As votes were being counted the opposition cried foul, alleging hacking and rigging were resulting in a false tally favouring Kenyatta. Violence broke out after Kenyatta was declared the winner and the opposition asked the Supreme Court to annul the result. On September 1, 2017 Kenya's judiciary took the historic decision to annul the election results over the claims of widespread irregularities. Odinga boycotted the October rerun, handing victory to Kenyatta. Green-backed Alexander Van der Bellen, who ran as an independent, was declared president on December 4, 2016 after the longest and most turbulent presidential campaign in post-war Austria. On May 22, 2016 Van der Bellen won a runoff against the Norbert Hofer, who had set his sights on becoming the European Union's first far-right president. But Hofer's party got the result annulled by the Constitutional Court in July because of procedural irregularities. A rerun had to be postponed because of faulty glue on postal votes. Van der Bellen was finally elected in December. The election of Jovenel Moise on October 25, 2015, was annulled in court the following June amid charges of massive fraud, creating a power vacuum. Moise prevailed again in a rescheduled first-round election on November 20, 2016, at which turnout was a dismal 21 percent. The Maldives Supreme Court in October 2013 annulled the results of presidential elections over irregularities in the electoral roll. The first-round vote had been won by Mohamed Nasheed, who had been ousted 18 months earlier. Nasheed went on to win the reorganised first round on November 9 but was beaten in the second round by Abdulla Yameen, the half-brother of a former president. On November 21, 2004, pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovych won the former Soviet republic's presidential election but the result was annulled in December after claims of rigging triggered the "Orange Revolution". His bitter rival, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, was poisoned by dioxin during the campaign but went on to win a new second round on December 26. The presidency of the pro-western leader, marked by political turbulence and economic crisis, largely disappointed Ukrainians who in 2010 voted in Yanukovych again. From October 2002 to November 2003, three presidential elections were ruled invalid in Serbia as the turnout rate was less than the 50 percent required under the electoral law. In June 2004 reformist and pro-European Boris Tadic eventually won against ultra-nationalist Tomislav Nikolic. acm-kd-eab/jxb
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